From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari Subject: invalid lvalue Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:57:35 +0530 (IST) Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux c programming mailing list I tried to compile the following program... int main() { int a; a = 2; # printf ("%d\n", a++++); return 0; } but it gave the following error. "invalid lvalue in increment" for the line indicated by #. Why it so, a has been defined as an int variable! -- ************************************************************************** Mohammed Khalid Ansari Tel (res) : 0091-022-3051360 Assistant Manager II (off) : 0091-022-2024641 National Centre for Software Technology Fax : 0091-022-2049573 8th flr,Air India Build. Nariman Point, E-Mail : khalid@ncst.ernet.in Mumbai 400021. Homepage : http://soochak.ncst.ernet.in/~khalid **************************************************************************